General Information

You live in (city & country)?

Tomsk, Russia

Your birthdate (or age)?

29 Oct 1980

Your occupation/job/studies?

Programmer

Your hobbies?

Playing Quake, amazing friends :)

Your email/icq/mirc/homepage?

Your music taste?

Punk rock mostly. I can listen almost anything except rap, maybe.

Anything you want to add here (about yourself)?

I prefer DM and TP playing rather then speedrunning.

Quake-related Information

Your nickname (story behind it)?

Manslay. I thought what would it be? I was reading a book - Victor Hugo's "A man who laughs" (I dunno how it will be in English or French :) So, there was a word "manslay" referenced by a foot-note... It sounded cool and something :) So I took it.

Your Quake config (key bindings, etc.)?

Everyone says it's weird. I'm ok with that. Movement: I - forward, J - left, L - right, ALT - back m_pitch -.025, m_yaw .022, sensitivity 6.45 (with -dinput command line) fov 120, m_filter 0, mouse1 - RL attack, mouse3 - all other but GL, mouse2 - jump, K and SPACE - GL and +attack weapons: Y - BS, U - LG, O - SSG, G - AXE, ";" - NG+SNG H - +moveup, "," - zoom, B - RJ, C - kill :) X - give all :), Z - restart, "'" - +showscores, V - status All the rest keys - TP macros and sayings...

Size of Quake directory on your HD?

5.663 Gb already. Mostly QW demos.

Your computer (processor/videocard etc.)?

P4 2.8, GeForce 3, NEC 19", Logitech mx510

Quake settings (resolution, version etc.)?

800x600x16 @ 85 Hz, JoeQuake/FuhQuake latest version

First contact to speedrunning (when, how etc.)?

Watched the very first QDQ demo. I didn't get used to play Quake at that time though...

First speedrunning demo?

Mmmm... after the very first release of qdq I managed to do e2m1 in 9 and then (something year later) in 8 seconds. I showed demos to my friends and that was all for that moment. Later, in 2000 there was e2m5 NR in 0:37. But i did not send that in, because Ingmar said he was improving it all his life, that was his favourite map and so on. So i did not.

Favorite speedrunning demo(s) from yourself (the one(s) that you're most proud of)?

Now i can name a demo with wich i AM satisfied. It's runthis ER. Took me about a whole year to improve it. And the only thing which failed all my attempts was extremely low fps on this map in JoeQuake. :/

Favorite speedrunning demo(s) from others?

Of the most recent - Peter's msrj 009

Favorite player (overall/runs/100%/marathon/coop)?

It was always Markus Taipale, and Jozsef Szalontai later

Favorite trick in a demo?

Markus's dm6 jump to GL

Favorite QdQ release?

Should be QDQWAV

Favorite original Quake map?

e1m2 from the single levels 'cause this map was often played at teamplay parties :) dm6 from the DM levels. Simply the best!

Favorite custom map?

ztricks :P

Most annoying monster/map?

Rottweiler is the most annoying :-E Scrags, fiends, rottweilers. Shamblers are my favourite

Do you like Doom/Quake2/Q3A?

Doom is great. We play it often (zDaemon version) at our server. Q2 sux =) I play Q3 DM sometimes.

What do you think of Quake now?

Wow :) No other game happened to be better. Quake physics possibilities are almost infinite :)

Quake Purity Test score? link

78.7%